Recommended Reading List
The Indigenous Law and Justice Hub have curated a list of recommended readings from leading academics and scholars on Indigenous legal issues, experiences and perspectives.
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Moreton-Robinson, A. (2000). Little bit woman: Representations of Indigenous women in White Australian feminism. Talkin’up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism, 94-125.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2004). Whiteness, Epistemology and Indigenous Representation. In Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. (pp. 75–88). Aboriginal Studies Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2005). Patriarchal whiteness, self-determination and indigenous women: The invisibility of structural privilege and the visibility of oppression. In B. A. Hocking (Ed.), Unfinished Constitutional Business?: Rethinking Indigenous Self-determination (pp. 61–73). Aboriginal Studies Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2007). Epistemic violence: The hidden injuries of whiteness in Australian postcolonising borderlands. In S. Petrelli (Ed.), White matters/Il bianco in questione (pp. 299–312). Meltemi.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2011). The white man’s burden: Patriarchal White Epistemic Violence and Aboriginal Women’s Knowledges within the Academy. Australian Feminist Studies, 26(70), 413–431.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2011). Virtuous racial states: The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty and the united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. Griffith Law Review, 20(3), 641–658.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2013). Towards an Australian Indigenous women’s standpoint theory: A methodological tool. Australian Feminist Studies, 28(78), 331–347.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2014). Imagining the good Indigenous citizen: Race war and the pathology of patriarchal white sovereignty. History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies, 310–330.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). I still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a postcolonizing society. In The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (pp. 3–18). University of Minnesota Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The white possessive: Property, power, and indigenous sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (Ed.). (2016). Critical indigenous studies: Engagements in first world locations. The University of Arizona Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A., & Walter, M. (2009). Indigenous methodologies in social research. M. Walter (Ed.), Social Research Methods (pp. 1–18). Oxford University Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. M. (2004). The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty: The High Court and the Yorta Yorta decision. Borderlands e-journal, 3(2).
Moreton‐Robinson, A. (1998). When the Object Speaks, A Postcolonial Encounter: anthropological representations and Aboriginal women's self-representation. Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education 19(3), 275-289.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2000). Talkin’ up to the white woman: Aboriginal women and feminism. University of Queensland Press.
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2003). I still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a white postcolonizing society. In Sarah Ahmed, C. Castada, & A.-M. Fortier (Eds.), Uprootings/regroundings: Questions of home and migration (pp. 23–40). Berg Publishers.
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Tuck, E. (2009). Suspending damage: A letter to communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79(3), 409–428.
Tuck, E. (2010). Breaking up with Deleuze: Desire and valuing the irreconcilable. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23(5), 635–650.
Tuck, E., & Gaztambide-Fernández, R. A. (2013). Curriculum, replacement, and settler futurity. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 29(1).
Tuck, E., & Recollet, K. (2016). “ EJ” in Focus: Introduction to Native Feminist Texts. The English Journal, 106(1), 16–22.
Tuck, E., & Ree, C. (2013). A Glossary of haunting. In S. Holman Jones, T. E. Adams, & C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of Autoethnography (pp. 639–659). Routledge.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1–40.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2014). Unbecoming Claims Pedagogies of Refusal in Qualitative Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(6), 811–818.
Arvin, M., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing feminism: Challenging connections between settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy. Feminist formations, 8-34.
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Behrendt, L. (2013) “Aboriginal Sovereignty: A Practical Roadmap.” In Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility., edited by Julie Evans, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly, and Patrick Wolfe, 163–77. Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press.
Behrendt, L. (2000). Consent in a (neo) colonial society: Aboriginal women as sexual and legal 'other'. Australian Feminist Studies, 15(33), 353-367.
Behrendt, L. (2005). Law stories and life stories: Aboriginal women, the law and Australian society. Australian Feminist Studies, 20(47), 245-254.
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Justice, D. H. (2011). Currents of Trans/national Criticism in Indigenous Literary Studies. American Indian Quarterly, 35(3), 334–352.
Justice, D. H. (2014). Indigenous writing. In Robert Warrior (Ed.), The world of indigenous North America (pp. 291–307). Routledge.
Justice, D. H. (2016). Reflections on Indigenous literary nationalism: On home grounds, singing hogs, and cranky critics. In Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (pp. 37–44). Routledge.
Justice, D. H. (2018). Why Indigenous literatures matter. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.
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Hokowhitu, B. (2021). The emperor’s ‘new’ materialisms: Indigenous materialisms and disciplinary colonialism. Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, 131–146.
Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A., Tuhiwai-Smith, L., Andersen, C., & Larkin, S. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies. Routledge.
Hokuwhitu, B. (2016). Monster: Post-Indigenous Studies. In Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations (pp. 83–101). The University of Arizona Press.
Hokuwhitu, B. (2021). Introduction. In B. Hokuwhitu, A. Moreton-Robinson, L. T. Smith, C. Andersen, & S. Larkin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (pp. 1–6). Routledge.
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hooks, bell. (1994) “Columbus: Gone but Not Forgotten.” In Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, 231–42. Routledge.
hooks, bell. (1991). Theory as Liberatory Practice. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 4(1), 1–12.
hooks, bell, Ferguson, R., & Minh-ha, T. T. (1990). Marginality as a site of resistance. In Out there: Marginalization and contemporary cultures (pp. 341–343). The MIT Press.
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Kidman, J. (2015). Indigenous youth, nationhood and the politics of belonging. Handbook of children and youth studies, 637-649.
Kidman, J. (2019). Whither decolonisation? Indigenous scholars and the problem of inclusion in the neoliberal university. Journal of Sociology, 56(2), 247–262.
Kidman, J., MacDonald, L., Funaki, H., Ormond, A., Southon, P., & Tomlins-Jahnkne, H. (2021). ‘Native time’ in the white city: Indigenous youth temporalities in settler-colonial space. Children’s Geographies, 19(1), 24–36.
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Watson, I. (2018). First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here. Indigenous peoples as subjects of international Law, 96-119.
Watson, Irene. (2012) “The Future Is Our Past: We Once Were Sovereign and We Still Are.” Indigenous Law Bulletin 8, no. 3: 12–15.
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Watson, N. (2013). What do we want? Not native title, that’s for bloody sure. In The Aboriginal Tent Embassy (pp. 316-330). Routledge.
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Whittaker, A., & Watson, N. (2019). First Nations Women: Law, Power, Story.
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Nakata, M. (2007). Disciplining the savages: Savaging the disciplines. Aboriginal Studies Press.
Nakata, M. (2007). The cultural interface. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 36(5), 2–14.
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Nakata, S. (2015). Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy: The Politics of Becoming Adult. Routledge.
Nakata, S. (2015). Representing indigenous Australian childhoods. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8(17), 7.
Nakata, S. (2018). The infantilisation of Indigenous Australians: A problem for democracy. Griffith Review, 60, 104.
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Kwaymullina, A., Kwaymullina, B., & Butterly, L. (2013). Living Texts: A Perspective on Published Sources, Indigenous Research Methodologies and Indigenous Worldviews. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 6(1).
Kwaymullina, A. S. T. (2017). Indigenous standpoints, indigenous stories, indigenous futures: Narrative from an indigenous standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Kwaymullina, Ambelin. “Aboriginal Nations, the Australian Nation-State and Indigenous International Legal Traditions.” Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law, 2018, 5–17.
Kwaymullina, A. (2021). Literature, resistance, and first nations futures: Storytelling from an Australian indigenous women's standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond. Westerly, 63(2), 140-153.
Kwaymullina, A. (2018). You are on Indigenous land: Ecofeminism, Indigenous peoples and land justice. In Feminist ecologies (pp. 193-208). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
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Walter, M. (2009). An Economy of Poverty? Power and the Domain of Aboriginality. International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 2(1), 2–14
Walter, M., & Aitken, W. (2019). Situating Indigenous Knowledges and Governance Within the Academy in Australia. In E. McKinley & L. T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Indigenous Education (pp. 1–17). Springer.
Walter, M. M. (2010). The Politics of the Data: How the Australian Statistical Indigene is Constructed. Politics, 3(2), 45–56.
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Patel, L. (2015). Desiring Diversity and Backlash: White Property Rights in Higher Education. The Urban Review, 47(4), 657–675.
Patel, L. & Alton Price. (2016). The origins, potentials, and limits of racial justice. Critical Ethnic Studies, 2(2), 61–81.
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Rifkin, M. (2009). Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking sovereignty in light of the" peculiar" status of Native peoples. Cultural Critique, 73, 88–124.
Rifkin, M. (2014). Making peoples into populations: The racial limits of tribal sovereignty. In A. Simpson & A. Smith (Eds.), Theorizing native studies (pp. 149–187). Duke University Press.
Rifkin, M. (2017). Beyond settler time: Temporal sovereignty and indigenous self-determination. Duke University Press.
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Rigney, L. (1999). Internationalization of an Indigenous anticolonial cultural critique of research methodologies: A guide to Indigenist research methodology and its principles. Wicazo Sa Review, 14(2), 109–121.
Rigney, L. (2001). A first perspective of Indigenous Australian participation in science: Framing Indigenous research towards Indigenous Australian intellectual sovereignty. Kaurna Higher Education Journal, 7, 1–13.
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Simpson, L. B. (2011). Dancing on our turtle’s back: Stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation, resurgence and a new emergence. Arbeiter Ring Pub.
Simpson, L. B. (2016). Indigenous Resurgence and Co-resistance. Critical Ethnic Studies, 2(2), 19–34.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2017) “Endlessly Creating Our Indigenous Selves.” In As We Have Always Done, 83–94. Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press. Konsmo, Erin Marie, and AM Kahealani Pacheco (2016) “Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence.” Women’s Earth Alliance Native Youth Sexual Health Network
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Simpson, A. (2016). Whither settler colonialism? Settler Colonial Studies, 6(4), 438–445.
Simpson, A. (2017). The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: Cases from indigenous North America and Australia. Postcolonial Studies, 20(1), 18–33.
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Smith, G. H., & Smith, L. T. (2019). Doing Indigenous work: Decolonizing and transforming the academy. In E. McKinley & L. T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of Indigenous education (pp. 1075–1101). Springer.
Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples (2nd ed.). Zed Books.
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Sium, A., & Ritskes, E. (2013). Speaking truth to power: Indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance. Decolonization: indigeneity, education & Society, 2(1).
Martineau, J., & Ritskes, E. (2014). Fugitive indigeneity: Reclaiming the terrain of decolonial struggle through Indigenous art. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(1).
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Harney, S., & Moten, F. (2013). Blackness and Governance. In The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (pp. 44–57). Minor Compositions
Moten, F. & Harney, S., (2004). The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses. Social Text, 22(2), 101–115.
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Harkin, N. (2016). On Grandmother stories and creative resilience. Overland, 223(Winter), 12-13.
Harkin, N. (2014). The Poetics of (Re) Mapping Archives: Memory in the Blood. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 14(3).
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Balla, Paola (2018). Walking in deadly blak women's footprints. Artlink, 38(2), 22-29.
Balla, Paola (2016) “Sovereignty: Inalienable and Intimate Paola Balla.” In Sovereignty, edited by Paola Balla and Max Delany. Melbourne: ACCA.